Shakespeare’s Religious Frontier
Shakespeare’s Religious Frontier

Author: Robert Stevenson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9401538514

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THIS slight volume is addressed not to Shakespearean special ists, but rather to the general public. My chief purpose has been to view Shakespeare's manipulation of his clergy. The last three chapters deal with ancillary problems. Two articles in this collection have already been published - "Shakespeare's Cardinals and Bishops" in The Crozer Quarterry, April, 1950; "Shakespeare's Interest in Harsnet's Declaration" in Publications of the Modern Language Association, September, 1952. I appreciate the Editors' permission to reprint these essays in the present volume. I also thank Professors Gerald Eades Bentley and Lily Bess Campbell for encourage ment and advice during the writing of the first, fifth, and last pieces in this collection. Neither is however to be held re sponsible for any errors discovered by reviewers. All of the essays in this volume except the first were written either at The Folger Shakespeare Library in 1950 or at The Huntington Library in 1952. I thank the directors and staffs of both libraries for their many exceptional kindnesses. Miss Mary Neighbour of Oxford has placed me further in her debt by typing the completed collection.

Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine
Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine

Author: Roland Mushat Frye

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1400878934

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Combining scholarship with grace, the author shows in this study that Shakespeare's works are pervasively secular, that he was concerned with the dramatization of universally human situations within a temporal and this-worldly arena, and that he was familiar with and used theological materials as only one of many natural and available sources. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Theatre and Religion
Theatre and Religion

Author: Richard Dutton

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780719063633

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Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit
Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit

Author: John Klause

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780838641378

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The Jesuit's influence is pervasive, but most especially when the poet/playwright takes up in his own work issues of special concern to the earl in a crucial decade (1593-1604), after Southwell's death, through the religious and political crises faced by the young nobleman during that time."--BOOK JACKET.

Secret Shakespeare
Secret Shakespeare

Author: Richard Wilson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 152618415X

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Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage. In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential to resist. This is a fascinating work, which will be essential reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.

Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective
Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective

Author: Larry S. Champion

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0820338443

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This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish.